Telecommunications History

1. created to regulate the development of different communication media
6. misleading or deceptive charges
7. regulates gas, water, transportation, and telecommunications within a state’s boundaries
8. instrumental in the purchase of Alaska
10. first billion dollar company
14. breakup of AT&T
15. USA professional membership organization active in creating and promoting standards and specifications
17. used to fill the gap in the telegraph system
20. one of the companies created from the Standard Oil breakup
21. inventor of the telephone: Bell or ____
22. the practice of changing a consumer's long-distance carrier without the customer's consent
23. the courts determined these geographic boundaries in 1984
24. two-way communication
26. the entire phone network...world wide

2. head of telegraph operations under President Lincoln
3. a division of the US gov’t dept. of the Interior, assists industry in developing methods, standards and systems
4. name of the first mobile phone
5. developed from 1934-1949
8. company for which the Sherman Anti-trust Act was created
9. built the telegraph from Omaha to Sacramento
11. Agreement that disposed of Western Union Telegraph
12. chief negotiator for the National Independent Telephone Association
13. one of the companies created from the AT&T breakup
16. one of the companies created from the Standard Oil breakup
18. sending unsolicited e-mail
19. a plow salesman
22. communication in only one direction
25. the lowest common denominator for voice communications